Who (be quiet) Are You?

From the Heart to the Heart...

“I am not telling you to grapple with the thoughts. There will be no end if you do it that way. Here lies the secret: there is the ‘I’, the source of all thoughts, and we have to catch it and see from where it arises. This is absolutely necessary. As a dog traces his master by following the track of his smell, you have to follow the inner development of the ‘I’ to reach its source, which is the [true] soul.” ~Sri Ramana Maharshi (Photo by Alex Greenshpun)

“I am not telling you to grapple with the thoughts. There will be no end if you do it that way. Here lies the secret: there is the ‘I’, the source of all thoughts, and we have to catch it and see from where it arises. This is absolutely necessary. As a dog traces his master by following the track of his smell, you have to follow the inner development of the ‘I’ to reach its source, which is the [true] soul.”

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

(Photo by Alex Greenshpun)

3 months ago - 8 -
(Photo by Alex Greenshpun)   Be Still, it is the wind that singsI am a pipe the wind blows through,Be still, it is the wind that sings.The course of my life and the things that I doAnd the seeming false and the seeming trueAre the tune of the wind that neither knowsGood and ill, nor joys and woes.But the ultimate awe is deeper yetThan song or pipe or storm;For pipe and tune are the formless windThat seemed for a while to take form.And words are good to escape from wordsAnd strife to escape from strife,But silence drinks in all the wavesOf song and death and life~Arthur Osborne

(Photo by Alex Greenshpun)

 

Be Still, it is the wind that sings

I am a pipe the wind blows through,
Be still, it is the wind that sings.
The course of my life and the things that I do
And the seeming false and the seeming true
Are the tune of the wind that neither knows
Good and ill, nor joys and woes.
But the ultimate awe is deeper yet
Than song or pipe or storm;
For pipe and tune are the formless wind
That seemed for a while to take form.
And words are good to escape from words
And strife to escape from strife,
But silence drinks in all the waves
Of song and death and life

~Arthur Osborne

3 months ago - 10 -

I don’t know anything,
and that ‘I’ which knows is nothing but an ignorant fool.
I think, when I don’t think,
that I have no end and no beginning.
That which thinks has to take thousands of births.
When there is ‘I’ He is not; when He is, I am not.

Swami Ramanagiri

4 months ago - 20 -

In the end it’s all very simple.
Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

Adyashanti (via ashramof1)

4 months ago - 145 -

Life of man is what is. That which is, is. All the trouble arises by having a conception of it. Mind comes in. It has a conception. All trouble follows. If you are as you are, without a mind and its conceptions about various things, all will be well with you. If you seek the source of the mind, then alone all questions will be solved.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

4 months ago - 77 -

Everything that you feel, hear, touch, smell and taste is maya.
Everything is maya, the grand illusion.
Most of us really do not understand what maya really is.
My trying to explain maya is maya.
Everything that your eyes behold,
that you believe is so important, is maya.
Everything that you hear,
Everything that you read,
Everything that you try to do to better yourself,
It’s all maya.

The water in the mirage, that is maya,
something that appears to be real,
but upon your investigation you find it’s not.
The whole world is like that.
The whole universe is like that.
Do not be fooled again.
Do not take anything seriously.
Turn within, do not react.

The turmoil, the chaos that appears to be in this world,
is not the truth. It is not Reality.
It is something that comes and goes.
This too shall pass.
But your center is God, Consciousness,
Absolute Reality, Brahman.
Those are all synonymous.
That is the Peace that exists.

Robert Adams (Thank you very much for sharing Tobiji!)

4 months ago - 23 -

One Instant is eternity;

eternity is the now.

When you see through this one instant,

you see through the one who sees.

Wu Men

(Translated by Stephen Mitchell, from The Enlightened Heart)

4 months ago - 12 -

Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are purely of the mind and are no concern of yours.

You are neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so you are always free.

Ashtavakra Gita

4 months ago - 7 -
For enlightenment to happen the perceiver must turn right around and wake up to the fact that he is face to face with his own nature -that HE IS IT. The spiritual seeker ultimately finds that he was already at the destination, that he himself IS what he had been seeking and he was in fact already home. ~Ramesh S. Balsekar, A Net of Jewels (Photo: “Listen to the Light” by Alex Greenshpun)

For enlightenment to happen the perceiver must turn right around and wake up to the fact that he is face to face with his own nature -that HE IS IT. The spiritual seeker ultimately finds that he was already at the destination, that he himself IS what he had been seeking and he was in fact already home.

~Ramesh S. Balsekar, A Net of Jewels

(Photo: “Listen to the Light” by Alex Greenshpun)

4 months ago - 5 -

So how would you handle it if you go to your work and they terminate you? Instead of worrying you would ask the question to yourself, “To whom is this happening? Who’s going through this experience? I am.”

Hold onto the I with all your might, Follow the I to the source. Look at the I as a thread that seems to be connected from the source to what you’re thinking about. And all of your thoughts are attached to that thread, to the I thread. All of your fears, all of your frustrations, all of your desires, everything is attached to the I thread, and as you hold on to it tight, you follow it, follow it into the heart center. Then it will just seem to disappear. The reason I say it will seem to disappear is because it never existed to begin with, so it appears to disappear.

But once that happens you’re free and you will not be disturbed by any mortal condition, and you will be happy. But when I say you’ll be happy, I am not referring to human happiness. I am referring to happy-happy, happy hour, really happy, for no reason. Again, because your true nature is happiness, your true nature is bliss. When you get rid of the other stuff your true nature shines forth effortlessly.

That’s why we call this the pathless path, because there’s really no path. There’s only a quietness of the mind, following the I to the source. Then all of a sudden you become omnipresence, you become omniscience, you become omnipotence. Then you can say, “I am that I am,”but there will be nobody left to say anything really. You will just bask in the sunshine of your love, of your happiness, of your bliss.

Robert Adams

4 months ago - 6 -

You are the Space which never moves and never travels.
Inner and outer space is due only to name and form.
Remove this form from mind by removing attachment
to any object, thought, or action.

Sri H.W.L. Poonja  (Papaji)

From: ‘This’ - Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness

4 months ago - 11 -

How do you create a dream? Does it start with a beginning? As soon as you start dreaming, there’s no creation. The dream just starts. Everything is already there. The trees, the sky, the earth, the flowers, the grass, people, insects, birds, flowers, everything just appears. Does it die in the end? You just wake up, and it’s all gone.

Robert Adams (via ashramof1)

4 months ago - 37 -

You are an unchanging and continuous being who remains in all these states which are constantly changing and therefore transient. But you are always there. It follows that these fleeting objects are mere phenomena which appear on your being like pictures which move across a screen. The screen does not move when the picture moves.
Similarly, you do not move from where you are even when the body leaves the home and mixes in society. Your body, the society, the forest and the ways are all in you; you are not in them. You are the body also but not this body only. If you remain as your pure Self, the body and its movements need not affect you.

Ramana Maharshi

4 months ago - 5 -

Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.
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There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou — Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Emily Bronte (from ‘No Coward Soul is Mine’)

5 months ago - 2 -
This amazing photo of Arunachala was taken by Reinhard Jung, on November 7th, 2012, a little before dawn.

This amazing photo of Arunachala was taken by Reinhard Jung, on November 7th, 2012, a little before dawn.

5 months ago - 16 -

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